fizzical at viaduct

another pole only today and with 35 booked in it just goes to show people enjoy it .as i parked in the car park you couldnt help but notice all the fish sunbathing at the bottom end of cary, so most people egreed that 74 would be a good draw as it is the first peg up from the bottom on the left hand bank, so where did i draw , peg 74 !!!!!!!!, but would they feed or were they just enjoying the unseasonel sunshine(lmao).
3 rigs today 2 of 4x10 j range 3,s with a b960 to .18, one for the empty pallet to my left and one to go down the edge towards the tree,s to my right and a 4x12 with the same hook and line at 14.5 mtrs out to the edge of the tree,s.
at the start i cupped in some 6,s at 14.5 , some down the right and some to my left by the empty peg, which i did try several times but never had a bite there. i also cupped some in at 6 mtrs as dick bull had won the previous saturdays match with 180 lb fishing there and out by the tree,s.
by the time i had finished feeding , the swims out by the tree had begun to fizz, and it never really stopped all match, and a lot of people i spoke to on cary had the same problem, while it was fizzing strongly you would struggle for a proper bite ,but as the fizz began to fade you could expect a proper bite, but if i had a bite in the fizz it was a fouler. the best feed pattern seemed to be either pouch in a couple of pouches and fish it out or pot in a reasonable ammount and do the same. the right hand margin was fed with a catty, and i did get 5 or 6 fish down there but they were on the small side.
although cary was fishing quite hard cambell was doing ok with ray hayward on 110 seemingly running away with it fishing hard pellet mainly down his left hand margin at 16 mtrs, at the end he was admitting to 180 lb so we were all fishing for the minor placings and it was going to be close , by the end i had taken 16 carp which normally would go 150 to 180 lb but as i said they were on the small side, i was first to weigh on cary and my 16 fish went 112.5, a bit dissapointing for this lake, but i was top weight on the lake all the way till we got to paul blake on 105 who had fished meat at 10 mtrs to take 10 carp which weighed 120.12,
as expected ray hayward won with 192.9
2nd jamie parkhouse 124.4 on 123 also he had top silver weight with 25.3 catching tench on meat
3rd andy (the ginger prince)power with122.15 peg 114
4th paul blake 120.12 peg 105
5th tony rixon 112.5 peg 74
6th mike nicholls 106.00 peg 119
all in all it was another close match and the fact we had a frost probably didnt help as the water temperature is up and down like tom thicks under pants when he is out doing what he does best. trouble is the fish will probably spawn as soon as the water temp hits 18c ,as they normally spawn this or next week but they are going to be late this year as the water is only 12c and with the weather not warming up until this weekend it will be a couple of weeks yet